Education

When Can Professors Have Sex with Their Students? [new “The Good Life” column]

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The opening of my latest column at EveryJoe: “Two sex scandals in philosophy departments have, well, scandalized the academic world recently. “One at the University of Miami in Florida led to the resignation of professor Colin McGinn. The other, at the University of Colorado, Boulder resulted in the removal of the department chair, Graeme Forbes. […]

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My essay “Educating for Entrepreneurship”

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[The English text is below was also translated into Polish and published in the education journal Przegląd Pedagogiczny.] Educating for Entrepreneurship Stephen R.C. HicksDepartment of Philosophy and Center for Ethics and EntrepreneurshipRockford UniversityRockford, Illinois, USA Introduction: Japanese visitors to American schools Recently a team of Japanese investigators come to the United States to study its

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Two upcoming talks at University of Casimir the Great

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I will be visiting the University of Casimir the Great in Bydgoszcz, Poland, to give two education-related talks: Thursday, May 15: Educating for Entrepreneurship. Friday, May 16: Doctoral Seminar on The Question of Education and Postmodern Thought. Many thanks to Professor Piotr Kostyło for the invitation to speak with his students and colleagues. Of course

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Real education — Woodward versus Brandeis and Azusa Pacific universities

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In the wake of a recent wave of controversial thinkers being disinvited* from universities, here is a classic quotation from Yale historian C. Vann Woodward on true education: “The purpose of the university is not to make its members feel secure, content, or good about themselves, but to provide a forum for the new, the

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Wellesley sculpture protests are not feminist

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Tony Martelli’s The Sleepwalker has generated a large number of protests about its patriarchal nature. Journalists at Slate and The Wall Street Journal have more coverage. Students at Wellesley College have complained about how the statue triggers in them fears of sexual assault, white privilege, male privilege, oppression, and other very bad things. Feminism should

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The Innovator’s DNA — and Montessori education

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Hal Gregersen, co-author of The Innovator’s DNA (Harvard Business Review Press, 2011), identifies the often-shared traits of innovators, but then makes this striking point about how the innovative became innovative: “‘It’s fascinating when we interview these famous entrepreneurs to realise that they grew up in worlds where adults paid attention to these innovation skills.’ Most

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